April 2016

Aradia isn't death right?

She is very much alive, and intends to stay that way : )

Can you please link [S] cascade?

It’s page 6009

Where's dad Egbert?

dead

Does gamzee have any god teir powers?

Yeah, he can manipulate Rage in other people. He instigated the events pre-retcon that left Terezi thinking her only option was to kill Vriska. Rather than something else like knock her out like Terezi had John do

okay so I definitely forgot what happened to gcat

In the GAME OVER update, Dave and Rose were both stabbed in the torso area and flat out died, but Terezi ripped the sword out of her chest and continued living longer than those two. Is it possible troll anatomy has organs in different locations than humans? Or is Terezi just a general badass?

TZ’s just that badass

Will there be more updates this week, or just one big flash? Because Hussie kind of contradicted himself in when he said "Then on 4/6, I'll post the END OF ACT 6 animation. That should immediately be followed by 7 days of updates (about 40 total pages), ending with an update on 4/13, the 7th anniversary of Homestuck. That update will contain ACT 7 in its entirety." Does "that update" refer to all of the updates including 413 or just 413? I am very confused.

the next 6 days will most likely be Intermission 3

How come when wearing the ring, the black and white queens both have tentacles, but PM and Jack do not?

They do, they can turn the tentacles off though

How long was the longest pause? (Gigapause and omegapause anon again, sorry)

Gigapause: 1 year
Omegapause: 8 Months
Minigigapause: 3 Months
Megapause: 2 Months
2012 Pauses The Series: 2 months
Eoa5 Pause: 1.5 Months
Post Act 5 Pause: 2.5 Weeks
The Brief Pause: 4 Days

I thought the retcon didn't affect anyone in the dream bubbles?

Right, which is why the pre-retcon versions still exist

Did gamzee make terezi kill vriska because she killed tavros?

Gamzee set it up to make it “look” like Vriska was also the one that killed Equius and Nepeta making Vriska seem more dangerous than she was. He also took her communicator glasses so Karkat couldn’t tell her that he was on the loose. He even wrote Terezi a note pretending to be Vriska telling her to come up to the roof.

So no, he didn’t make Terezi kill Vriska but he’s definitely the reason she did.

So, because of the retcon is Terezi still blind/blind again

Yes

Couldn't Sollux in Remem8er just have been him before Erisolsprite happened?

Yes, but we see them Aradia and Sollux meeting up with the Ghost army and Sollux is flying on his own so he isn’t blind

about that previous ask- the one about how now that the condesce is dead, roxy might be LE's new servant? was the condesce LE's servant? and why would roxy be the next one in line?

It’s a curse that forces the bearer to serve LE. The Handmaid was the first to have it, and then Condesce inherited it when she killed the Handmaid. Presumably whoever killed the Condesce (Roxy in this case) might inherit it as well, we’ll see

If Roxy can void pumpkins, then does that mean she can snag people from alternate universes? Or am I misunderstanding how her powers work

Roxy removes the absence of something, she doesn’t teleports them in from around timelines

so like homestuck at the beginning was done through commands given by the fans, does that mean the Beta kids names were made up from them or Hussie?

Hussie picked from fan suggestions

would it be possible to include the dates for the pause post? (142380994789) if its not too much trouble?

here

I'm sorry but where did the shrek/eridan picture originate from? is it real and what page is it on if it's real?

It was in [S] Collide, it’s based on an old school meme

Other than getting his head cut off, did Dirk die in [S] Collide?

File this under questions you can only ask about Homestuck

I just this its funny how Terezi got stabbed in the chest and carries on for at least another hour, and yet )(IC drops dead like a loser when she gets stabbed despite being higher on the hemospectrum, which is supposed to make her sturdier

Okay, lets just say that in addition to stabbing Condy with a sword, Roxy also stole the absence of chocolate pudding from her lungs so she couldn’t breathe and suffocated to death.

why aren't there two dog jacks? one from John's timeline and one from the new

No, there’s only one dog jack

I saw someone ask about if there would be an update over the next couple days and you're answer was "the next 6 days will most likely be Intermission 3" does that mean an intermission in updates or a hs intermission like with spades slick. Also is it possible Act 7 could be a really long update.

Like a HS intermission. Intermission 1 was about Spades Slick, but Intermission 2 was about Lord English so Intermission 3 could be about a variety of things, I guess we’ll find out tomorrow :3

is there any kind of database for the trolls' (most importantly karkat's) ridiculous expressions for human words?? i mean things like "thinkpan" or "container of scalding leaf fluid" or "crotch bandeau". if there isn't i'm very sad

Yes

Are you sure about Gamzee being the reason Terezi killed Vriska? He is the reason they had a confrontation, but by the end Terezi knew that Vriska was innocent of most of the murders and killed her specifically to prevent her from alerting Jack to the trolls' hideout.

But Terezi could have just knocked Vriska out (like she realized in the future and had John do) but she was blinded (hehe) by rage which was caused by Gamzee 

So in open-bound the dancestors talk about how they haven't seen Meenah in a long time. Why is that? Where was she?

She didn’t wake up in the bubbles until long after the other Beforan trolls did

is homestuck updating tonight?

Yes

Does Roxy's power mean that she could potentially remove the absence of a dead person, bringing someone back to life?

That might be moving more into Life territory so probably not

When was the gigapause? Tryna figure out how long I've been in this fandom

October 2013 - October 2014

It could be possible that Terezi got stabbed in like the gut or lung while )(IC took a katana to the heart.

Or that we’re playing by rpg rules and everyone’s got a healthbar and the sword made Condy’s hit zero while TZ had plenty of health left when she got stabbed.

In a page from the recent updates (i can find the exact page if you need) roxy mentions a "friend who never even existed from this timelines perspective" who is she talking about? calliope?

Fefetasprite

what time (roughly) do you think homestuck will update tonight? does hussie not usually upd8 at midnight?

Midnight (-5) for flashes, usually like 1-ish pm for normal upd8s

I know in the fraymotifs...time was used to freeze people...void to create things..mind to coordinate things...wind for, well wind...what did the seer of light aspect contribute?

Guidance. As you can see in several of the fraymotifs, light beams appeared first and then wind//cubes followed.  Rose also assisted in the summoning of the wizard statue

wait, since gamzee doesn't die in timelines, then do all doomed timelines just have that one living gamzee scampering around?

After a certain amount of time paradox space erases doomed timelines so no.

How old are the kids now?

16

I've forgotten quite a few things from HS, but Condy had pudding in her lungs??? Could you explain that please ???

That was a joke

if caliborn's masterpiece/the kids getting trapped in the juju happens in the future, then how does vriska have the version of the treasure containing them? did the treasure time travel?

Time works differently in the Furthest Ring

One thing really confused me about [S]: Collide: Was Spades Slick attacking Dave, Dirk and Terezi or were they just in the crossfire of his fight with Jack English? I know that Jack English was trying to kill them all, but that part really confuses me.

Slick was trying to get the kids out of the way so he could fight Jack English but Terezi attacked him so that’s how that started

Wait, I thought Dad Egbert was dead but he appeared in the end of act 6??? Holy shit is John gonna flip out or????

That’s Dad Crocker, jane’s dad

How many times has Dirk died

4, if you count the thing that happened post-Game Over

can i get a source for pspace erasing doomed timelines?

It’s questioned here and confirmed here

Has Caliborn (not Lord English) actually killed anyone other than Calliope and Yaldabaoth? Like what's he done except solve his Land puzzle and make bad anime art?

His land puzzle involved destroying 15 planets, at least one of which was inhabited.

does that mean that Dad Crocker is post-scratch John or is John his (Dad Crocker's) dad?

Post-scrath John (Poppop) is Dad Crocker’s father

Dirk didn't die in the Game Over timeline, and since it wasn't a doomed timeline, he simply got written over.

It was doomed tho, it’s stated multiple times that it was a doomed timeline. Like here, and here, and here.

what was godtier callie doing in collide?

Getting ready to do some shit, stay tuned to find out what

wouldn't dave be older than the others since he time travels all the time? since while rose or john thinks it's been 3 years or something, dave's been in the game like twice as long as anyone, right?

Dave’d only be a couple days older. He really didn’t do all that much time travel.

Upd8, 6 pages, 34 more to go

In [S] collide there was a huge reference (reference might it an understatement) to undertale in the fight between davepeta and LE. Could you tell me how Hussie was able (legally) to use it? (I mean) what is the connection between Homestuck and undertale?

Toby Fox and Andrew Hussie have been friends for years. Toby been making music for Homestuck since the beginning (he even had a song in the flash), he also started creating Undertale in Hussie’s basement

is there any reason troll names are always 6 letters long?

is there any reason kid names are always 4 letters long?

has there been any humans in a canon relationship that uses troll quadrants? i mean, normal human dating would probably be hearts. is there any human character who purposefully got in a relationship with diamonds/clubs/spades?

Rose tried to “clubs” between Gamzee and Terezi pre-retcon but it didn’t end up so well.

John’s also been doing a lot of Black flirting with TZ so stay tuned to find out if that happens

In act 4, Mom Lalonde fights a bunch of enemies on LOLAR and then later on, maplehoof finds a giant grist horde. Did mom lalonde kill the denizen?

No, just a lot of enemies